29 April 2014

Academy Award Winning Faculty Member Gives Inaugural Talk

Academy Award winner and JMSC faculty member Ruby Yang delivered her inaugural talk, titled “Becoming American, Becoming Chinese: A Personal Journey Through San Francisco, Beijing and Hong Kong,” as HKU’s new Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities on April 25. She showed clips of her documentaries, short subjects and public service announcements, and gave a tour d’horizon of her career.
26 March 2014

Hong Kong Media Law Guidebook

With its in-depth research and analyses of key developments in local and international contexts – in such areas as defamation, privacy, contempt of court, access to information, national security, copyright, obscenity and media regulation – it also is an authoritative resource for lawyers, judges, regulators and scholars.
13 February 2014

Dan Gillmor to speak on media entrepreneurship

Dan Gillmor, noted journalist, author and educator, will give a talk at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre on February 14 entitled “Imagining Journalism’s Future: Conversation, Data and Entrepreneurship.” Date: 14 February 2014, Friday Time: […]
5 January 2014

JMSC Suggestions Cited by Government in Report on Copyright Law Reform

A JMSC position paper urging increased legal protection for creators of parodies and similar literary or artistic expression was repeatedly cited by the Hong Kong government in its report on a recently concluded public consultation on copyright law reform.
26 November 2013

A Q&A session on environmental photojournalism with Alex Hofford, award-winning conservation photojournalist – CANCELLED

Award-winning photojournalist Alex Hofford will speak at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Centre this Thursday, Nov. 28, from 11:00 a.m. to 12 noon. The occasion will be an informal Q&A session with the students of Associate Professor Miklos Sukosd's "Environmental Communication" class, Room 101, Eliot Hall.
18 September 2013

JMSC Co-Hosting International Conference on Media Law and Policy in the Internet Age

A distinguished group of lawyers, legal experts and officials from around the world is meeting in Hong Kong October 18 and 19 to examine the controversies and challenges the Internet age has created for the […]
24 August 2013

JMSC Professor Spends Summer Retracing 2001 Journey Across Afghanistan

JMSC professor Kevin Sites spent his summer the way he has spent much of his professional life – swimming with warlords, having his life threatened, nearly getting hit in a mortar attack, and stepping into the middle of […]